If you could, would you sell your IQ points?

[FlyGuyOU]

This is a debate several severs at my job have been discussing.
If it was possible to sell an IQ point would you? lets say they will give you $1000 per point.

How many would you sell?

And yes everyone has different IQs so some people could obviously afford to get rid of more before becomming an idiot, but still.

[Coelho]

Of course NOT! Being intelligent is priceless!
Would you sell your hands, your eyes, or your legs for any amount of money?

But... if anyone were interested in selling me their IQ points, maybe we can get a deal... even cause someone dumb enough to sell IQ would be very easy to fool...

[stinkyattic]

No way! I need them both! :(

[Breukelen advocaat]

Here are the old IQ Range Classification terms, no longer used:

70-80 Borderline deficiency
50-69 Moron
20-49 Imbecile
below 20 Idiot

So, if you start out with an IQ of 119, you could make 100,000 if you are willing to become an idiot.

Seems that there are a lot of people with IQ's of 119 and above that already ARE "idiots". :thumbsup:

[McLeodGanja]

I'd sell the ones from 1 up until about 130, I don't really use them much anyway.

[Breukelen advocaat]

I'd sell the ones from 1 up until about 130, I don't really use them much anyway.

We already knew that. :D

[stinkyattic]

Ahh the fine line between self-deprecating humor and insults seems to fall somewhere past about that 130 mark...

[McLeodGanja]

Ahhhhhhh it was a joke was it! I didn't pick up on that one, probably since as i say I don't use my lower IQ points so much. ;)

[THClord]

If the price was 100k per point, I might sell a couple, but not under that.

[Nathan604]

no, straight up lol

[Coelho]

I'd sell the ones from 1 up until about 130, I don't really use them much anyway.

Well... most people has an IQ lower than 130, and does almost everything with it, like eating, driving, having sex, talking, working, etc etc...
So, if you sold your IQ points below it, the only things you would be able to do are the ones which use the IQ points higher than this, like playing chess, doing some heavy math, maybe computer programming... and nothing else... not even shitting...
Are you sure you still would sell it? :p

[rebgirl420]

Hmmm I don't think so. I like learning and I value my intelligence.

But maybe if you make the price much, MUCH higher per IQ point. Like 3,000,000 per point. Then I'd sell one or two IQ points. But no more than that.

[MadSativa]

No way! I need them both! :(

I was gonna say I need the last one but that was good

[Storm Crow]

I work at a school and my brain is my livelihood! I match wits with kids every day! I can't afford to lose a single point! ;)

Also, IQ is only one measure of "intelligence". There is "book smart", "street smart" and "social skills" smart, to name a few. Most of us are either "math people" or "language people"- in other words, more intelligent in one area than in another.

And there's "Earth wise"- able to make use of what is around you without destroying things. And many of us know that "heart wise" person- the one everyone talks to because they always make us feel better.

There are the "idiot savants"/ child prodigies- people who are brilliant in one narrow area while being normal to low IQ in all others. "Intelligence" is a "slippery fish" of a concept.

My brother defines (our) excessively high IQ as a form of mental illness- and in some ways, he is right. It does warp you. I was the precocious 10 year old who felt more comfortable talking with adults, preferably, well educated adults. One of the main reasons I was initially interested in my husband was that he knew who Utnapishtem was and had heard of genetic crossover. :wtf: (Yeah, I was THAT geeky!):D

We all have our strengths and weaknesses in all of the many facets of intelligence...however you define it. Ideally, we should all be both teachers and students, since none of us knows it all! - Granny:hippy: (well medicated tonight!)

[Nightcrewman]

I'd happily sell mine, though I don't know what I would spend my $500 on.

Cheers

NCM

[FlyGuyOU]

See I agree w/ storm crow here in the sense that its only a measure of smarts and not actual smarts. For only $1000/point I probably wouldn't sell any but if you offer me 10k/point I would instantly sell two of them and pay off all my student loans. That sounds like a pretty smart idea to me, I hope I don't forget it after I sell my point

[McLeodGanja]

Would you donate some of your IQ points to George W Bush if you thought it might make the bastard see sense?

[Barrelhse]

Ya mean BOTH of them?!

[eggrole1]

I would give away 10-20 if I could. A little at a time until I foudn a sweet spot. I have trouble talking to people and get frustrated when they don't understand me. From what I have learned, once you have a large enough gap communication becomes a problem b/c the people don't grapple with ideas in the same way.

[SkinnyBuddha]

Well... most people has an IQ lower than 130, and does almost everything with it, like eating, driving, having sex, talking, working, etc etc...
So, if you sold your IQ points below it, the only things you would be able to do are the ones which use the IQ points higher than this, like playing chess, doing some heavy math, maybe computer programming... and nothing else... not even shitting...
Are you sure you still would sell it? :p


But eating having sex and shitting are all part of instinct, which i don't think is too closely tied with your IQ considering some creatures without brains perform these tasks on some level. Although giving up all those IQ points would probably cause a loss in the human ability to reason, which would suck balls.

[Coelho]

But eating having sex and shitting are all part of instinct, which i don't think is too closely tied with your IQ considering some creatures without brains perform these tasks on some level. Although giving up all those IQ points would probably cause a loss in the human ability to reason, which would suck balls.

I know... i was just teasing him :D

[fenderninja]

wow, what an interesting topic.

I would have to say no. I wouldnt sell my intelligence. I mean, after all that could potentially make me far richer than selling it in the first place. And even if not, i would just hate going through life knowing i could be smarter.

[Mississippi Steve]

Here are the old IQ Range Classification terms, no longer used:

70-80 Borderline deficiency
50-69 Moron
20-49 Imbecile
below 20 Idiot

So, if you start out with an IQ of 119, you could make 100,000 if you are willing to become an idiot.

Seems that there are a lot of people with IQ's of 119 and above that already ARE "idiots". :thumbsup:

I could sell 50 points and be "borderline deficiant", any more than that an I would be a democrat.

[Esoteric416]

No way! I need them both! :(

That is just too great LMFAO:thumbsup::D:thumbsup:

[Esoteric416]

I don't think id sell any points at only 1k a point, but maybe at 10k+ just a few. That meand id have to sell like 4 or 5 to pay off my student loans. Damn. So at this rate by the time i got a nice house and a sweet car id be too stupid to drive or know what the house key is for. I guess Rebgirl has it right the price would need to be pretty high, at least a few hundred thousand per point.

[cashflow]

maybe if I got more than $1000 a point, otherwise if others were selling them that cheap i would buy em up, eventually our world would be idiots and geniuses, lol

[eggrole1]

eventually our world would be idiots and geniuses, lol

So nothing would change? :(

"UT Austin philosophy professor Louis Mackey argues that the gap between the average person and Plato is greater than the gap between the average person and chimpanzees. True genius, he argues, is rarely achieved, largely because of human laziness."

[TurnyBright]

It would depend on whether someone else would be getting them. I would never sell them if someone was just paying me to destroy my IQ, but I would definitely sell some to a really dumb person to smarten them up.

There could be intelligence drives for the mentally disabled where thousands of people each donate or sell a single one and then all of those could be used to sharpen minds in need.

It would be sweet.

[GreenDestiny]

There's many things to help exercise our brains to operate more efficiently, which in turn can increase our IQ. It's such a relative thing anyways which can fluctuate a bit, so I assume that selling any points will not be permanent.

I'd devise a plan to follow for increasing my IQ before I sell any points. Once the points have been sold, I'll just work towards slowly building up my intelligence.

They'd have to go to someone in much need of increased intelligence.

I think of it this like.... hey, you wouldn't dare to cut off a part of your precious weed plant. But if you do, it can heal and grow back... and that part you cut off can be planted to grow into another healthy plant. We can always breed to make seeds/babies but not every seed will be just like its parents... but those cloned genetics/IQ points will spread the same good stuff to everyone that needs it. or something like that...

anyways, $1,000 isn't much money per point, and $10k is too much. $5,000 sounds reasonable to me for one point. And I'd definitely only sell them one point at a time. Assuming I still have at least 140-150 to start with, it's no problem. I'm afraid to take another test to see if I've naturally gotten any dumber over the years!